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Elections in the U.S. are more of a charade, a farce, than an exercise in civic responsibility. Half of the population is disenfranchised; minorities are barely represented; the white middle-class has a field day; it's a single system with two heads that battle for the oval office, whose members' foremost interest is to enrich themselves on the back of the little people. The outcome is duly certified to perpetuate the status-quo. The result is a shameful sham.
--Gilles d'Aymery
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- Left Conservatives Under Right Progressives - Manuel García, Jr. - Dec. 12
- Blue, Red & Blue Again - Glenn Reed - Nov. 12
- Real Democracy Requires Political Competition - Joel S. Hirschhorn - Nov. 12
- Some Thoughts On The US Election - David Jordan - Nov. 12
- Post Election Thought - Peter Byrne - Nov. 12
- Election 2012: Equality Outvotes Privilege - Manuel García, Jr. - Nov. 12
- 2012 US Election: A Pretty Good Morning After - Jan Baughman - Nov. 12
- Good Lord The US Election Is Over - Gilles d'Aymery - Nov. 12
- Post Election: Obama, Work And Pay - Fabio De Propris - Nov. 12
- Sitting Out This Election Year - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr. - Nov. 12
- 2012 Election Oblivion - Gilles d'Aymery - Oct. 12
- Voting Illusions And Reality 2012 - Manuel García, Jr. - Oct. 12
- Democratic Despair Votes - Manuel García, Jr. - Sept. 12
- Too Big To Fail, Or A Bunch Of Failures? - Jan Baughman - Sept. 12
- Puzzling And Stale Media Colloquialisms - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr. - Sept. 12
- Why The Republican Convention Was All Fluff - Manuel García, Jr. - Sept. 12
- Conservative Antinomies For The Ages - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr. - Sept. 12
- For A More Banal Presidency - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr. - July 12
- Exiting The "Lesser Evil" Trap - Michael DeLang - Feb. 12
- The Richland Inter-Faith Right-To-Life Trust - Manuel García, Jr. - Feb. 12
- Voting For Ron Paul Is Stupid For Leftists - Manuel García, Jr. - Feb. 12
- Awful Reasons Why Obama Could Get Reelected - Joel S. Hirschhorn - Oct. 11
- Tea Party Envy - Jan Baughman - May 11
- The State Of Delusion - Gilles d'Aymery - Jan. 11
- Seeing Red With Post-Election Blues? - Jan Baughman - Nov. 10
- Remaining Silent About Obama - Gilles d'Aymery - Dec. 08
- What We Accomplished Together - Ralph Nader - Nov. 08
- The Charade Is Finally Over - Gilles d'Aymery - Nov. 08
- The First Hundred Days - Charles Marowitz - Nov. 08
- 2008 US Elections: Recommendations - Swans Editors - Oct. 08
- John McCain: Freud To The Rescue - Charles Marowitz - Oct. 08
- Ice Cream For Diversity - Jan Baughman - Sept. 08
- Red Inside, Green Outside: Our Great Loss - Peter Camejo (1939-2008) - Louis Proyect - Sept. 08
- We Will Decide! - Ralph Nader - Sept. 08
- Behind The Curtain Of Ron Paul's Disciples - Gilles d'Aymery - Sept. 08
- Denver Braying - Martin Murie - Sept. 08
- Neo-Progressives Sell Out To Democrats - Joel S. Hirschhorn - Sept. 08
- Representation Without Taxation - Jan Baughman - Aug. 08
- Could I Support Obama Instead Of Nader? - Gilles d'Aymery - Aug. 08
- Misplaced Blame Undermines Democracy - Joel S. Hirschhorn - Aug. 08
- Patrolling The Fringes - Martin Murie - Aug. 08
- An Interview With Jürgen Vsych - Jan Baughman - July 08
- Had Enough? - Lee Iacocca - July 08
- What's Your Breaking Point? - Gilles d'Aymery - July 08
- Fringes - Martin Murie - July 08
- Want To Waste Your Vote? - Gilles d'Aymery - June 08
- Who's Party Are We Spoiling? - Jan Baughman - June 08
- Harold Washington: A Mainstream Radical Against The Machine - Xolela Mangcu - June 08
- How To Help The Nader-Gonzalez '08 Campaign - Gilles d'Aymery & Jan Baughman - June 08
- Changing The Middle East Course - Jan Baughman - May 08
- Meeting Ralph Nader & Matt Gonzalez - Gilles d'Aymery - May 08
- Judging The Candidates - Charles Marowitz - May 08
- Hearts And Minds - Martin Murie - May 08
- Obamania: Curb Your Enthusiasm - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 08
- Cast Of Characters - Charles Marowitz - Jan. 08
- The Zoology Of Pwogs And Pwogrevs - Gilles d'Aymery - Jan. 08
- Spoiler Today, Rebel Tomorrow - Jan Baughman - Jan. 08
- Buy Now And Lighten Up - Peter Byrne - Jan. 08
- Clinton And Obama On Iran And Biofuels - Michael Doliner - Jan. 08
- No Beauty Will Win The Beauty Contest - Philip Greenspan - Jan. 08
- Democracy Versus Stability - Joel S. Hirschhorn - Nov. 07
- Back To Feudalism - Carol Warner Christen - Nov. 07
- Irresponsible Americans - Joel S. Hirschhorn - Oct. 07
- Phases Projected - Carol Warner Christen - Oct. 07
- Politicolingo & The Vanishing Art Of Rhetoric - Charles Marowitz - Oct. 07
- Do Protests Make A Difference? - Philip Greenspan - Oct. 07
- You Say "Obama" -- I Say "OSAMA" - Charles Marowitz - Sept. 07
- Keeping Hope On Life Support - Jan Baughman - Aug. 07
- The Senior Senator From West Virginia - Gilles d'Aymery - Aug. 07
- The Essential Significance Of Ralph Nader - Gilles d'Aymery - July 07
- A Rudderless, Co-opted Antiwar "Movement" - Gilles d'Aymery - June 07
- Welcome Back To Reality, Cindy - Gilles d'Aymery - June 07
- Mandate 2006 - Jan Baughman - June 07
- The Greening Of The Peace Movement - Eli Beckerman - June 07
- In Praise Of Anger - Charles Marowitz - May 07
- The Fragmentation Of The Left, Part II - Gerard Donnelly Smith - May 07
- The Fragmentation Of The Left - Gerard Donnelly Smith - May 07
- Deceitful Solutions To America's Energy Dependence - Gilles d'Aymery - March 07
- Every Vote Counts - Jan Baughman - Feb. 07
- An Open Letter To Cindy Sheehan - Eli Beckerman - Feb. 07
- A Mess Of Potage - Carol Warner Christen - Feb. 07
- On Obligation In A Participatory Democracy - Michael DeLang - Feb. 07
- The 5th Estate - Bruce Patterson - Jan. 07
- 2007 - Milo Clark - Jan. 07
- Failure And Truth - Michael DeLang - Jan. 07
- A Good Start - Bruce Patterson - Jan. 07
- Viva La Revolución - Jan Baughman - Nov. 06
- It's The Issues, Stupid! - Gilles d'Aymery - Nov. 06
- Consequences Of A Domestic And A Foreign Election - Philip Greenspan - Nov. 06
- Election 2006: Turning Point Or Charade? - Robert Wrubel - Nov. 06
- "Lives Of Quiet Desperation" - Charles Marowitz - Nov. 06
- Revolutionaries For Democrats - Jan Baughman - Nov. 06
- The Democratic Salvation And The Idiotic Left - Gilles d'Aymery - Nov. 06
- US Midterm Elections: Recommendations - Jan Baughman & Gilles d'Aymery - Oct. 06
- Change The Course - Jan Baughman - Oct. 06
- Thoughts On The US Midterm Elections - Louis Proyect - Oct. 06
- Get This: Imperialism Is Bipartisan - Aleksandar Jokic - Oct. 06
- The Games Played And Called Elections - Milo Clark - Oct. 06
- Election 2006: Delivering More of the Same - Philip Greenspan - Oct. 06
- Voting One's Conscience - Gilles d'Aymery - Sept. 06
- The Next President - Charles Marowitz - July 06
- Confusion And Frustration In The Mid-Term Elections - Milo Clark - July 06
- Election Shenanigans - Deck Deckert - June 06
- The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is . . . Karl Rove - David Bordelon - Feb. 06
- Wanted: A New Consciousness - Charles Marowitz - Feb. 06
- To Ignore Is To Participate - Milo Clark - Feb. 06
- Predicting A Republican Sweepstake - Milo Clark - Jan. 06
- Impeachment Is Just Another Word, For Nothing Left To Lose - Deck Deckert - Nov. 05
- Democracy, Let's Bring It Here - Philip Greenspan - Nov. 05
- The Leader Of The Opposition - Charles Marowitz - Sept. 05
- Workers, Socialists, And Democrats: Reflections On Strategy - Julio Huato - May 05
- The Nature Of Democracy - Michael Doliner - April 05
- Put "-ocracy" On The Proper Prefix - Philip Greenspan - Feb. 05
- Functioning Core And Non-integrating Gap - Milo Clark - Nov. 04
- Marketing Humanity - Jan Baughman - Nov. 04
- Newtonian America - Manuel García, Jr. - Nov. 04
- Remarks Of The President Of The United States On Gay And Lesbian Policy - Gerard Donnelly Smith - Nov. 04
- Help Is On The Way: Implications Of A Stolen Election - Eli Beckerman - Nov. 04
- Ride This Donkey: Why The Left Needs A Fundamental Realignment - Joel Wendland - Nov. 04
- November 4, 2004 - Milo Clark - Nov. 04
- Passions Unleashed - Milo Clark - Nov. 04
- "Voting" with the Non-Voters - Philip Greenspan - 11/15/04
- Voting For Dummies™ - Jan Baughman - Nov. 04
- Derailing Third Parties: Today And Yesterday - Mark Lause - Nov. 04
- 2004 US Presidential Election: Recapitulation - Gilles d'Aymery - Oct. 04
- God, The Ghost Of Richard Nixon, And The Demons Of Election 2004 - Phil Rockstroh - Oct. 04
- Ralph Nader: A Vote For Sanity - Gilles d'Aymery - Oct. 04
- Anyone But Bush? - Jan Baughman - Oct. 04
- Transforming Reality Into Mythology - Philip Greenspan - Oct. 04
- A Summary From The Hawaii Political Trenches - Milo Clark - Oct. 04
- Jeffrey St. Clair & Alexander Cockburn: Dime's Worth of Difference - Louis Proyect - Oct. 04
- Transforming Reality Into Mythology - Philip Greenspan - Oct. 04
- A Day As Observer - Milo Clark - Oct. 04
- The Continual Election Winner - Philip Greenspan - Sept. 04
- What Your Vote Means - Manuel García, Jr. - Sept. 04
- Impotent, Irresponsible And Hypothetical - Milo Clark - Sept. 04
- Tragedy - Richard Macintosh - Sept. 04
- Mythology - Helen Jones - Sept. 04
- From Smoke To Fire: Is The GOP Stealing Another Election? - Milo Clark - Sept. 04
- Welcome To New York - Eli Beckerman - Sept. 04
- Beginning Of The End Or End Of The Beginning? - Milo Clark - Aug. 04
- Damned If We Do? Damned 'Cause We Didn't! - José M. Tirado - Aug. 04
- I Will Not Be Herded - Eli Beckerman - Aug. 04
- Courage II - Richard Macintosh - Aug. 04
- Dubya's Elixir: Bigger And Brighter Same Old Crap - Philip Greenspan - Aug. 04
- The Case for Nader-Camejo - Louis Proyect - July 04
- The Left And The Election Choices - Ed Herman - July 04
- Whose Imperial Patriarchy? - Eli Beckerman - July 04
- Bush Lied! - Frank Wycoff - July 04
- Election 2004: A Plebiscite In Bedlam - Phil Rockstroh - July 04
- The Fine Art And Accomplished Magic Of Liking Everything - Bill Eger
- July 04
- ABB a.k.a. America's Bizarre Bunko - Philip Greenspan - July 04
- Regime Change Starts With Bush - Joel Wendland - July 04
- Kerry And Electoral Illusions - John Steppling - July 04
- Reviving Political Parties: The Last Chance For Democracy - Bill Eger
- June 04
- Letter To John Kerry - John Blunt - June 04
- The Bankruptcy Of Progress: The Challenge Of Today - Milo Clark - June 04
- McCain Versus Kerry? - Manuel García, Jr. - June 04
- Supply-Demand . . . . Implosion - Milo Clark - June 04
- Behind The Anti-Nader Attacks - Louis Proyect - May 04
- The Chicken Parable - Milo Clark - May 04
- Bush Is The Stick-up Man For The Ruling Class - Joel Wendland - April 04
- Who Will It Be: Coke, Pepsi Or 7-Up? - Philip Greenspan - April 04
- Election 2016: The Issues - Manuel García, Jr. - March 04
- Safer, Stronger, More Democratic: Kosovo, Iraq, And The Heavens - Gilles d'Aymery - March 04
- Coup d'État: A Platform Issue - Milo Clark - March 04
- Err, Mr. Carville, No Picture? - Gilles d'Aymery - March 04
- Err, Mr. Bush, What Went Wrong? - Gilles d'Aymery - March 04
- Privatization: A Platform Issue - Milo Clark - March 04
- Jobs And Janet Jackson - Frank Wycoff - March 04
- There Never Were Any "Good Old Days" In The Democratic Party - Howie Hawkins - March 04
- Ralph Nader: If Not Now, When? - Gilles d'Aymery & Jan Baughman - March 04
- Do You Feel Represented? - Frank Wycoff - Feb. 04
- The Avocado Declaration - Peter M. Camejo - Jan. 04
- Campaign Financing - Jan Baughman - Dec. 03
- Thank You, Peter Camejo: Summary of his Platform - Gilles d'Aymery - Oct. 03
- Disquieting Green Politics - Gilles d'Aymery - Sept. 03
- Peter Camejo-Cynthia McKinney: A Green Presidential Ticket? - Gilles d'Aymery - July 03
- Simplicity: The Absence of Complexity - Gilles d'Aymery - April 03
- Voter Apathy? Whatever - Jan Baughman - Nov. 02
- Beyond The Lesser Evil - Gilles d'Aymery - Nov. 02
- Vexing Electoral Realities - Gilles d'Aymery - Oct. 02
- Invent The Future (Introduction to Robin D.G. Kelley's essay) - Gilles d'Aymery - June 02
- 9-11: Overheard on Main Street: Scene I - The Situation - Gilles d'Aymery - Feb. 02
- Scene II - The Lament - Gilles d'Aymery - Feb. 02
- Scene III - The Solution - Gilles d'Aymery - Feb. 02
- My Last 522 Words on the Election - Jan Baughman - Dec. 00
- Ralph Nader: An Opportunity for Change - Jan Baughman - Nov. 00
- Dear Mr. Nader - Gilles d'Aymery - Nov. 00
- Post-Elections Snapshots - Gilles d'Aymery - Nov. 00
- Why Are They Crucifying Ralph Nader? - Gilles d'Aymery - Oct. 00
- More to be added back in time
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